Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
NEW DELHI: An upset Vice-PresidentHamid Ansari. Red faces in government. Questions on parliamentary ‘haste’ that result in less-than-careful reading of text of Bills. And MPs who passed key legislations having to go through the process all over again. All this because of silly errors in drafting legislation.Ansari, said senior officials familiar with the matter, expressed […]
Read MoreBritish Prime Minister David Cameron and his Tory party scored a decisive victory over the opposing Labour Party, left far-left and far-right parties in the dust and defied pre-election polls with a resounding election triumph he called “the sweetest victory of all.” Aided by the Scottish National Party’s rout of Labour in Scotland, Cameron and […]
Read MoreA military helicopter carrying foreign diplomats crashed in northern Pakistan Friday, killing at least seven people, including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines, and injuring several others. The Pakistani Mi-17 chopper was flying to the mountainous northern region of Gilgit to check on development projects when it crashed into a school and caught fire […]
Read MoreHappy Winners of the campaign “Coca-Cola kholo, connect koro” pose with Samsung Galaxy J1 smartphones. The campaign that started on 15th March 2015 will end on 14th May 2015. Coca-Cola allows its consumers to participate and win smartphones every hour from 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM during the two month long campaign. press release
Read MoreDHAKA, May 7 (NsNewsWire) — For years authorities in Bangladesh have battled to stop men urinating in public, with signs in the local Bengali language failing to halt the seemingly endless number of offenders. But the Bangladesh religious affairs ministry’s recent decision to erect new signs in Arabic has had a marked effect, despite most Bangladeshis […]
Read MoreHong Kong, May 6 (NsNewsWire) — The GSMA today announced a partnership with the Shanghai International Information Consumption Festival in bringing mobile and ICT-focused exhibitions, events and activities to Shanghai. The GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai will be held 15-17 July, alongside the Shanghai International Information Consumption Festival at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC) […]
Read MoreNew Delhi, May 6 (NsNewsWire) — The Union cabinet has approved the legislation to implement the land boundary agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh, a step that is likely to help improve ties with India’s eastern neighbour. The cabinet cleared the Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill 2013 on LBA between India and Bangladesh, Frank Noronha, principal spokesperson of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 6 (NsNewsWire) — When it is a two-man club, the exclusivity creates a mutual admiration society. Mushfiqur Rahim and Tamim Iqbal are Bangladesh’s only double-centurions in Tests and have a lot of praise for each other. Considering that there have been 340 200-plus individual innings in Test history, two is only a drop […]
Read MoreKATHMANDU, May 5 (NsNewsWire)– Death toll from April 25 Nepal quake and aftershocks reached 7,557 and the number of injuries rose to 1,4536, the Ministry of Home affairs said on Tuesday. As many as 10,718 government building were destroyed in the massive earthquake while 14,741 sustained partial damages. About 191,058 civilian houses have been flattened […]
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